Orlando Combo jazz band The genuine live Jazz experience from Melbourne's best working band

Orlando Combo provides the genuine live Jazz experience from Melbourne's best working band

Please note, the Orlando Combo is an actual band and not a music agency or ‘franchise’. We only take on one booking at a time. Some groups take multiple bookings for the same date all performing under the one band name, this is not how we operate.

Real instruments played live by highly skilled musicians – no electronics, samples, loops, backing tracks, drum machines or gadgetry.

From our compact acoustic Trio line-up for sophisticated, instrumental background music through to our Quintet with vocals for lively Swing and Soul material, Orlando Combo can provide the genuine live Jazz experience for your venue or next event.

Orlando Combo first formed in 2000 when members Adam Orlando and Lucas Evans met at the Victorian College of the Arts (University of Melbourne) whilst completing a BA in music performance. Through the experience gained from over 2500 performances the Combo has gone on to become one of Melbourne’s best working bands, offering professionalism, reliability and outstanding musicianship.

Orlando Combo performs regularly at all major Melbourne events including; a tournament residency at the Australian Tennis Open (6 years), AFL Grand Final, Melbourne Cup Carnival at Flemington (12 years), Presidents Cup at Royal Melbourne Golf Club, Commonwealth Games, Australian F1 Grand Prix, Queen Victoria Night Market summer and winter series (10 years), Melbourne Fashion Festival (3 years), Channel 9’s ‘The Block’ (2 years) and the Australian Art Deco festival. Public venue residencies in Melbourne include; The Night Cat, Crown Casino, The Botanical Hotel Sth Yarra (8 year residency), the Athenaeum Theatre, RACV city club resident/house Jazz band (3 years), Dizzy’s Jazz Club, Portsea Hotel and Half Moon Hotel Brighton. Corporate clients include Pfizer, BHP, Loreal, Ericsson, Ernst & Young, ANZ, CBA, NAB, Accenture, Telstra, GE, IBM, LendLease, Greg Norman, Department of Premier and Cabinet, PWC, BMW, Ferrari, Mercedes-Benz, Toyota, the AFL, Amcor etc. Private function venues include Vue De Monde, the Melbourne Club, Crown Casino, Government and Parliament House, The Arts Centre, NGV, Eureka 89 and Grand/Park Hyatt’s. The group has also completed a six month performance contract at the Hotel Sofitel, Vietnam. Wedding performances are also a specialty.

The genre is Jazz but more specifically the sound is a special blend of Swing/Rhythm & Blues/Bossa Nova/Lounge/Motown/Boogaloo and Soul. Inspiration and repertoire comes from the swing of Louis Armstrong, the big band era and the Jazz of the roaring 1920’s/’Great Gatsby’ period, the cool sounds of Miles Davis, George Benson and the ‘Blue Note’ record label era, ‘Great American Songbook’ standards and show tunes of Frank Sinatra and Nat King Cole, smooth bossa nova of Antonio Carlos Jobim, the old school Rhythm & Blues of Ray Charles, Fats Domino and Chuck Berry, New Orleans style brass band roving street music and the dance-floor Soul and Motown classics of Van Morrison, Marvin Gaye, Al Green and The Beatles etc.

The band takes up minimal space and is discreet with equipment, being fully aware of the visual importance of wedding and corporate function work. Our standard attire for private events is lounge suit; sharp ‘vintage style’ presentation in keeping with our musical genre.

Being regular performers at the Spring Racing Carnival and various functions in Melbourne’s parks and gardens the group is able to play without a power supply if requested. The Combo also travels to the Peninsulas, rural Victoria and interstate for performances.